Identifier: arizonawonderla00jame (find matches)
Title: Arizona, the wonderland; the history of its ancient cliff and cave dwellings, ruined pueblos, conquest by the Spaniards, Jesuit and Franciscan missions, trail makers and Indians; a survey of its climate, scenic marvels, topography, deserts, mountains, rivers and valleys; a review of its industries; an account of its influence on art, literature and science; and some reference to what it offers of delight to the automobilist, sportsman, pleasure and health seeker. By George Wharton James. With a map and sixty plates, of which twelve are in colour
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
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Publisher: Boston Page company
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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rugged rock that towers directly over thecity. Several of the places named above are among the won-derlands for which Arizona is already famous, and whichthe pages of this book are written to make better known.And the roads over which one passes are remarkable inboth engineering and scenery. Prescott has more romances than those which attachto the Indian raids, her sensational mine discoveries, andher political history. One of her Mayors was the famous Bucky ONeill, cowboy,, miner, statesman, orator,promoter, literary man, and soldier. He was one ofRoosevelts able officers during the Cuban Campaign, andlost his life in the charge on San Juan Hill. His friendand great admirer, Solon Borglum, one of the greatestsculptors America has yet produced, needed little urgingby the people of Prescott to make a spirited piece ofsculpture of ONeill as a representative rough rider.This he did as a labor of love, the people of Prescott sub-scribing sufficient to enable a casting in bronze to be made
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BUCKY ONEIL MONUMENT, IN THE PLAZA, PRESCOTT, ARIZONA. Prescott and Yavapai County 357 of it. This striking group now occupies an honored posi-tion in the city plaza. This plaza is also the site for the new quarter of amillion dollar court-house which Yavapai County iserecting. The original intention, was to make it ofpressed brick, but the contractor was induced to investi-gate the granite of Prescotts own mountains with viewto its use instead. At first incredulous as to its quality,repeated tests satisfied him that it was of the very highestgrade for superior building purposes, and early in 1918the people of Prescott and the county congratulate them-selves that they will possess one of the finest court-housesin the Southwest. There is another interesting feature in Prescott.Three years ago the Chamber of Commerce secured afine addition to the residence section of the city, of eightyacres, beautifully situated on the hillside, and coveredwith pines, which they called Pine Crest. They

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